- From: Hilmar Lapp <hlapp@drycafe.net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:33:16 -0400
- To: Peter DeVries <pete.devries@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
A blog post by Rod Page about a month ago has lots of interesting bits of information regarding this: http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2010/05/referring-to-one-degree-square-in-rdf.html Also see Geohash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash -hilmar On Jun 11, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Peter DeVries wrote: > Hi LOD'ers, > > In the GeoSpecies data set I have a predicate isExpectedIn. > > This is used to state that a given species is expected in a > geographical area. > > Most of the time I use the geonames features as the object > > So <http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http/lod.geospecies.org/ses/mCcSp > > > http://lod.geospecies.org/ses/mCcSp > geospecies:isExpectedIn > • http://sws.geonames.org/6255149/ > • http://sws.geonames.org/5279468/ > • http://sws.geonames.org/4862182/ > • http://sws.geonames.org/5037779/ > • http://sws.geonames.org/5001836/ > I also do the reverse link so you can query what species are in what > geonames feature > > <!-- Wisconsin State Link Out --> > <geospecies:State rdf:about="http://sws.geonames.org/5279468/"> > <geospecies:hasExpectationOf rdf:resource="http://lod.geospecies.org/ses/mCcSp > "/> > </geospecies:State> > At present this just get's me to county, and I have always wanted to > get something that was more uniform and global. > > This would need URI's that are of a grid equally sized polygons that > are either equal in X, Y by either decimal degrees or meters. > > I marked up this example, that is a one tenth decimal degree by 1 > tenth decimal degree. It is rectangular in actual distance (meters/ > kilometers) > > http://lod.taxonconcept.org/examples/geogrid/10/N93d0_37d1_W93d0_37d1.html > > http://lod.taxonconcept.org/examples/geogrid/10/N93d0_37d1_W93d0_37d1.rdf > > What I am wondering is, is there already an existing set of URI's > that do the same sort of thing? > > Has anyone been able to create valid RDFa that also works with > GoogleMaps? > > Thanks! > > - Pete > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Pete DeVries > Department of Entomology > University of Wisconsin - Madison > 445 Russell Laboratories > 1630 Linden Drive > Madison, WI 53706 > GeoSpecies Knowledge Base > About the GeoSpecies Knowledge Base > ------------------------------------------------------------ -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at drycafe dot net : ===========================================================
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